Megan Derr > Quotes

“A man with a sword has a means to stay alive. A man with a named sword has a reason to stay alive.”
― Megan Derr

“Nothing is more interesting than doing what you should not.”
― Megan Derr, Bound

“The problem with becoming too immersed in what people like to call magic is thinking it is superior to everything and learning only contempt for something as simple as a loaded gun.”
― Megan Derr

“Mornings and I had a falling out many years ago. We avoid one another as much as polite society dictates we may.”
― Megan Derr, The Rapier Brothers

“I'm about to implement a policy of throwing people out the window whenever they make my life harder instead of easier."
"With greatest respect," Lesto drawled, "Your Majesty would have to pitch himself out first.”
― Megan Derr, The High King's Golden Tongue

“Love token? So far you've given me a farthing charm and a book of manners I don't need. No wonder you idiots need a tournament to get married." Tress”
― Megan Derr, Tournament of Losers

“Perhaps love was worth any and all sacrifice, but that love was of no comfort to those who were sacrificed.”
― Megan Derr, Dance in the Dark

“If you continue to tie me up, I might think you like me. Stop doing it.”
― Megan Derr, Bound

“No tricks, Christian. I don't play that way when I play for keeps."

"No one ever said we were playing for keeps."

"We? I hadn't realized you'd agreed to play at all, beautiful." Triumph gleamed in Sable's eyes.”
― Megan Derr, Dance with the Devil

“Resentment is a waste of energy, and revenge is a waste of living.”
― Megan Derr, Dance with the Devil

“Women always know everything; they like to hoard the information until it can be used to maximum effect.”
― Megan Derr, Prisoner

“No one can be miserable forever. No one is meant to be.”
― Megan Derr, Prisoner

“Any piece of the past is clung to, when it is all you have.”
― Megan Derr, Embrace

“Dwelling on past mistakes did no good. Better to focus on the ones that
could be fixed.”
― Megan Derr, Prisoner

“It will never cease to amaze me the way you simultaneously have no patience for people but love to help them,”
― Megan Derr, Dance with the Devil

“That a poor man has no choice but to make the best of what he finds or is
given.”
― Megan Derr, Prisoner

“I am naked, wrapped up in a dragon that should be a prince, I don't know how much of my crew is dead, and those mermaids could return at any time. Would somebody please say something that makes sense?”
― Megan Derr, Treasure

“ 'Still too thin. You've let your hair grow out a bit, though. Trying to look pretty for your prince? I've told you time and again you're far too ugly to be saved.'

'You've got no room to talk of ugly. Your poor wife, always having to wear a blindfold to bed. If I'm too thin, it's because you've got all my weight. Palace life is making you into a unicorn.' ”
― Megan Derr, The Engineered Throne

“Death doesn't scare me. Death will never scare me. The only thing that scares me is you.”
― Megan Derr, Dance in the Dark

“The weakest are always the cruelest,
in the end.”
― Megan Derr, Embrace

“Nobody who loved a hawk would be drawn to a songbird, especially not a damaged one.”
― Megan Derr, The High King's Golden Tongue

“Only one person had ever captured Erich and kept him, and that person held him captive even in death.”
― Megan Derr, Bound

“Shocking! Did she really do that?"

"Would I lie?"

"You lie faster than a whore offered a bag of gold,”
― Megan Derr, Magic & Mischief

“Do not underestimate the strength it takes to be the hearth everyone turns to for warmth.”
― Megan Derr, The Painted Crown

“Skills are skills; the same way tools are tools. How they are used defines the user, not the tools.”
― Megan Derr, The High King's Golden Tongue

“After a few minutes, he pushed the daydream away again, unable to bear the pain. It had always been a slender hope and had quite firmly moved into the realm of impossible. He had learned a long time ago that nothing was gained by dwelling on the impossible. Only a few more hours. Maybe in his next life he would do a better job of living.”
― Megan Derr, Of Last Resort

“I want to keep you. I want to lock you up and not let anyone near you. I don't want others touching you, I don't want them to smell you. I want you hidden and safe. I want to hoard you and never share you with anyone again. I would shape my entire life around your every want and desire, around pleasing you and satisfying you, keeping you where I am not just the centre of your world but all of it.”
― Megan Derr, Of Last Resort

“The entire place smelled like the bastard child of a florist and a perfume shop.”
― Megan Derr, The Werewolf of Grey Lake Inn

“Devotion, whatever form it takes, is not a source of amusement save to those who take smug satisfaction in their own ignorance and call it superiority," Demir replied.”
― Megan Derr, The Harem Master

“If there is one trait that unites humanity, it's hypocrisy,”
― Megan Derr, The Fallen King's Penitent Soldier